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A Perfect Hand

by Racine

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we were dealt a perfect hand we came up with the perfect plan we can get away with anything perfect moment, perfect space perfect dreams and perfect taste we can get away with everything and when trains collide in the rail yard and the kids go to school on sundays we could get away with everything if we play it right and we launch our assault on the city and the kids stay out all night we might get away with everything if we play it right
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Manifesto 01:19
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the aqua blue nauseating colour of the wall is not enough to make it feel like a shopping mall or an institution of insanity with panopticon cameras pointing straight at me organic concrete is better than synthetic rubber our shows are predetermined and we charge no cover organic concrete, synthetic rubber our lives aren't predetermined and they're like no other when we discussed it in a conference call we were still spread out in four different locations on two continents now we conduct secret experiments to synthesize the beauty of the form and the form of beauty the landlord is senile and his wife is a bitch who worships satan and tried to kill us with corn chips you went pale when it got stuck in your throat and while you almost choked i put the drawn on napkin in the pocket of my coat it's all going in the archives documented and indexed for posterity but the results of our experiments will lead us to a different understanding of alterity
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in april we stayed up all night talking about suicide and the things you told me the night before were trapped inside my mind conjuring images like the ones i'd seen but didn't believe and we both felt this was our last chance to get it right i can't deal with another disappointment i'm late for my appointment with destiny i can't deal with another disappointment i'm late for my appointment with destiny oh, can't you see what this means to me oh, can't you see what this is costing me
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it was easier than we expected when everything fell into place good fortune smiled upon and greeted us with a friendly face white powder, gunpowder set the room on fire white powder, gunpowder set the room on fire spontaneous human combustion may occur we make music with turntables and sometimes with a computer it was easier it was easier it was easier than we expected it was easier it was easier it was easier than we expected
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(...) 02:36
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fluidity is a concept you need to understand to grasp my perception of the trajectory of the gaze across the passage of time and how much of it is in your mind and how much of it is in the space-time continuum on which you rely and upon which everything depends how long ago was it decided that this wouldn't be permitted and so we would be divided and the laws that make it so are etched into my mind and they keep me locked within the space-time continuum i will be denied anything that could ever make me satisfied how long how long will we look out the window how long how long how long will we look at it sideways averting each other's gaze how long how long how long how long how long how long how long how long
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Apathy Kills 03:55
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i find it offensive when people say everything happens for a reason 'cause it leaves no room for the absurd or the arbitrary but now everything is charged with meaning the smallest detail filled with significance our quest for understanding is in the interpretation of the signs it's a trap and it's an escape it's the truth and we're making it up it's the problem, the result and the solution the conversation is unreal its essence is intangible the words that pass between us get caught in the atmosphere and never reach our ears
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it's the end of illusions i've reached that conclusion on my own there's no more confusion i'm free from illusions i know now that i'm on my own a fleeting moment of collective dreaming when we allowed ourselves to believe in the impossible but the moment has passed to see is not with the physical eye but to know and understand i see my future written in between the lines of my own hand
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and all the words that i said i wish i could take them all back but not because i didn't mean them and not because you didn't listen but in the end we're no closer to a mutual understanding you said there were better ways to communicate but i don't know what they are and if there are better ways to communicate maybe this is one of them
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if it didn't sound so pretentious i'd say leave it to the historians they'll put things in perspective with cold scientific detachment they'll take into consideration what we wanted, what we believed what we did and didn't know what was beyond our control there was no revolution and we didn't change the world did the force of our convictions match the scope of our ambitions but i don't want to dwell on the past anymore i'm more ambitious than ever before and i'm starting to understand how it all works i'm starting to understand what it's all worth boredom is counter-revolutionary boredom is counter-revolutionary boredom is counter-revolutionary boredom is counter-revolutionary

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Written and recorded post-Lab Synthèse.

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released August 13, 2008

Written, performed and recorded by Yan Basque.

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